Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Wood-Bush Legless Skink, Woodbush Legless Skink
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
()
- Family:
Scincidae
()
- Genus:
Acontophiops
()
- Specific name:
lineatus
- Sternfeld
- Scientific name: - Acontophiops lineatus Sternfeld
- Specific name:
lineatus
- Sternfeld
- Genus:
Acontophiops
(
- Family:
Scincidae
(
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Acontophiops lineatus — Branch 1988: 115
- Acontophiops lineatus — Daniels Et Al. 2006
- Typhlosaurus rieppeli — WELCH 1982: 67 /i> (Replacement Name)
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Acontophiops
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. lineatus (Wood-Bush Legless Skink)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Branch (1988) Field Guide to the snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa, Cape Town, 328 pp.
- Daniels et al. (2006) Zoologica Scripta 35 (4): 353
- de Witte et al. (1943) Mém. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. (sér.2) 26: 44 pp.
- FitzSimons (1943) The lizards of South Africa, Pretoria, 528 pp.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Sternfeld, R. (1912b): Eine neue Scincidaengattung aus Südafrika und eine neue Amphisbaenidae aus Kamerum - Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 10, pp. [248-250]
- Welch (1982) Herptile 7 (4) : 25
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 31, 2006.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Acontophiops lineatus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2535805
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-472
- IUCN ID: 41230
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 636597
